ALBUQUERQUE — An organization dedicated to passing a right-to-practice Health Freedom Act in the January 2007 New Mexico legislative session voted Thursday to form as a limited liability company.

In addition, members approved hiring the experienced New Mexico lobbyist team of Mike Walker and Chris Jaramillo to help steer the bill through the legislative process.

The organization seeks input from anyone involved in any  aspect of complementary and alternative health anywhere in New Mexico. Membership is free. Members may vote either (more…)

National Health Freedom Coalition
http://www.nationalhealthfreedom.org/
Founded by attorney Diane Miller who led the Minnesota campaign that started the “health freedom act” movement

American Association for Health Freedom
http://www.apma.net/aahf/default.asp
Wynn Werner of the New Mexico Complementary and Alternative Medicine Project just introduced me to the American Association for Health Freedom. Like what I see on the website but haven’t dug in deep enough to provide a great (more…)

Colorado’s lower house has passed a Health Freedom Act that would allow alternative health practitioners to openly offer their services without risk of violating the state’s medical practice act.

The legislation now goes to the Senate and is believed to have a (more…)

Here are links to six Health Freedom acts:

2005 Louisiana Revised Statutes 20-37 VI-B - Disclosure by Purveyors of Food, Dietary Supplements, or Homeopathic Remedies

2003 Rhode Island Statute 23-75 - Unlicensed Healthcare Practices

2001 California SB577 - California Complementary and Alternative Health Care Practitioners

1999 Minnesota Statute 146A - Minnesota Freedom of Access to Complementary and Alternative Health Care Practitioners

1994 - Oklahoma Statute 59-480 - Oklahoma Allopathic and Surgical Licensure and Supervision Act

1976 - Idaho 54-1804 - Unlicensed Practice. Penalties and Remedies Relating to Unlicensed Practice. (See Section J which I am under the impression was added by the state legislature in 2004 or 2005, but I haven’t confirmed that with any authorities in Idaho. (Note to self. Do that. If it was actually approved in 1976, then it pre-dates the other states by more than two decades.)

While Minnesota often is cited as having originated the Health Freedom Act movement, the ’80s had some substantial precursors. Two in particular (more…)

It’s a toss-up whether Washington state pioneered the open-practice movement with its Registered Counselor Act, or whether Colorado did with its “psychotherapy/counseling” act.

Both were passed in 1987. Both require non-licensed counselors of all ilk to (more…)

Oklahoma’s “Allopathic Medical and Surgical Licensure and Supervision Act” is long and convoluted. But the state may have the simplest “health freedom act” to date.

It guarantees that alternative practitioners have the right to practice with just two short clauses in the medical practices act.

The two clauses clearly exempt alternative practitioners from prosectuion for practicing medicine so long as (more…)

Health Freedom acts–as adopted in six* states since the late ’90s–protect the public four ways:

1. They assure the public has the right to choose and have access to alternative health and counseling options.

2. They require non-licensed complementary and alternative health care practitioners (and in some cases, personal-development and counseling practitioners) to provide clients with a written full disclosure about such things as (more…)

Lesson learned.

A theme in WordPress controls how the various elements appear on the page: What goes where, in what typestyle and color and so on.

After almost giving up on the 3-column Relaxation theme I chose for Mind Body Spirit Journal last September, I switched to the new Regulus theme–just to get things rolling.

(I haven’t completely given up on Relaxation and am going to try to find expert help this week to give it one last big shove. If it won’t go, then I’ll junk it.)

Regulus is Ben Gillbanks’ clean, simple looking new theme. It has gone through many, many (more…)

Mark Twain wrote:

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”

 As George Bush said:

“Mission accomplished.”

Errrr. Maybe I should rephrase that.